A series of 26 posts featuring excerpts from Joshua Glenn’s The Idler’s Glossary (Biblioasis, 2008) and The Wage Slave’s Glossary (Biblioasis, 2011). Both books were coauthored by Mark Kingwell, who contributed entertaining philosophical-critical essays on the subjects of idling and wage slavery; and both were wittily illustrated and designed by the cartoonist Seth.

QUITTER

The quitter [from the Latin for “free”] ought not to be disparaged. For as Evan Harris, author of the 1996 manual The Quit, informs us, quitting — a job, a bad relationship, a lifestyle — can be a creative act, a life-affirming “Yes!”